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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMORETTI: 32, by EDMUND SPENSER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The painful smith with force of fervent heat
Last Line: And she to stones at length all frosen turne?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Heat; Cold; Despair
First Line: The painful smith with force of fervent heat
Last Line: And she to stones at length all frosen turne?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Heat; Cold; Despair
The paynefull smith with force of fervent heat
The hardest yron soone doth mollify;
That with his heavy sledge he can it beat,
And fashion to what he it list apply.
Yet cannot all these flames in which I fry
Her hart, more harde then yron, soft a whit
Ne all the playnts and prayers with which
Doe beat on th' andvyle of her stubberne wit:
But still, the more she fervent sees my fit,
The more she frieseth in her wilfull pryde;
And harder growes, the harder she is smit,
With all the playnts which to her be applyde.
What then remaines but I to ashes burne,
And she to stones at length all frosen turne?
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